Frank Lloyd Wright Architect/Planner Hari K.G.Nambiar
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Frank Lloyd WrightArchitect/Planner Hari K.G.Nambiar
The William H. Winslow House, River Forest, III(1893)
The Stephen A. Foster House, Chicago, Illinois (1900) -Japanese element
The Arthur Heurtley House, Oak Park, III(1902)
The Arthur Heurtley House, Oak Park, III(1902)
The Susan Lawrence Dana House, Springfield, Illinois (1903)
This house has a basement and it contains large air ducts with heat pipes inside. The ducts take in fresh outside air and heats it before it flows into the rooms through floor grilles.
The side wings are on offset axes making the first floor plan a pinwheel.
The Ward W. Willits House, Highland Park, III (1901)
The Ward W. Willits House, Highland Park, III (1901)
The house is composed of horizontals and has few vertical elements. There is a long pergola attached to the stable & garage.
The Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York (1902)
The Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York (1902)
The Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York (1902)
The Frederick C. Robie House, Chicago, III (1909)
Heating is provided by radiators which are set into concrete depressions in the floor in front of the each of the sets of balcony doors and are covered by metal grilles. Wright designed a progressive system for venting the attic spaces & drawing the hot summer air out. A simple wooden door closes and contains the heat in winter.
The Frederick C. Robie House, Chicago, III (1909)
The Frederick C. Robie House, Chicago, III (1909)
The Frederick C. Robie House, Chicago, III (1909)
The Frederick C. Bogk House, Milwaukee, Wisc. (1916)
The Aline Barnsdall(Hollyhock) House, Los Angeles, Calif. (1920)
The similarity in the decorative elements to the Imperial hotel & Mayan culture is evident. Since Los Angeles is a desert, the thinking at that time was that harsh sunlight had to be kept out. The windows are therefore small and set deep and the colours of the interior are cool. The ornament is an abstraction of the Hollyhock which was the clients favorite flower and is used in the band that surrounds the house, as well as column capitals and the art-glass window patterns.
The Aline Barnsdall(Hollyhock) House, Los Angeles, Calif. (1920)
The house is cubic built with decorative moulded concrete blocks. The concrete blocks were often pierced allowing light to enter.
The Alice Millard House, Pasadena, California (1923)
The John Storer House, Los Angeles, Calif. (1923) built of concrete blocks & steel rods- seismic resistant.
The Richard Lloyd Jones House, Tulsa, Oklahoma (1929)
The house is constructed of smooth-sided concrete blocks, similar to those used in the Alice Millard house in California. The concrete blocks are 16in(41cm) on each side and they are set 16inches apart ,all along the outside walls. This makes the wall appear to have vertical stripes.
The Richard Lloyd Jones House, Tulsa, Oklahoma (1929)
The Edgar Kaufmann House (Fallingwater), Mill Run, Penn.(1936)
The Edgar Kaufmann House (Fallingwater), Mill Run, Penn.(1936)
A five-storeyed structure, innovative in its scale & in every system structural, electrical, mechanical & visual. This could be perhaps the first air-conditioning system that incorporated refrigeration & air cleansing through a spray of water. Heat was provided by radiation and a large skylight was supplemented with incandescent lighting. The building had elevators.
The Larkin Company Admn. Building, Buffalo, New York (1903)
Unity Temple, Oak Park, III. (1906)
Unity Temple sees the complete integration of all systems structural, visual, mechanical, electrical & plumbing. The large columns that up the roof of the main temple are hollow air ducts for the space.
Wright was deeply impressed with Japanese architecture, especially a temple he saw in his 1905 trip to Japan which had two parts, one for religious operations and the other for secular, and has its parallel in the temple room and social hall on opposite sides of the central entry.
It is one of the first non-industrial buildings to be constructed using poured concrete.
Unity Temple, Oak Park, III. (1906)
Interior view of the podium
Unity Temple, Oak Park, III. (1906)
Unity Temple, Oak Park, III. (1906)
Unity Temple, Oak Park, III. (1906) Interior of the Social room
Unity Temple, Oak Park, III. (1906)
Midway Gardens, Chicago, III. (1914)- A concert venue, a beer garden.
The Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan(1916-1922)reconstructed at the Meiji Mura Museum
Survived Japan’s worst earthquake in 1923 because of its design. As it was built in sections
In plan, the hotel formed a large ‘H’ with the guest rooms running along the two sides and the foyer, main dining room & hallways at the centre. The courtyard had large pools not only to display the beauty of fish and plants which they contained, but also for fire-fighting.
The Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan(1916-1922)reconstructed at the Meiji Mura Museum
The Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan(1916-1922)reconstructed at the Meiji Mura Museum
The Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan(1916-1922)reconstructed at the Meiji Mura Museum
The Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan(1916-1922)reconstructed at the Meiji Mura Museum
The Johnson Wax Admn. Building, Racine, Wisc. (1936)
Wright used Pyrex tubes in place of glass for the windows which not only diffused the light but also acted as an insulator in extreme summers & winters of Racine climate. Cork was used on the underside of the balcony to reduce the noise coming from the great work room, the floor too had rubber tiles.
The mushroom-shaped concrete columns were designed to support 12 tons but were found to take a load upto 60 tons during tests.
The Johnson Wax Admn. Building, Racine, Wisc. (1936)
The Johnson Wax Admn. Building, Racine, Wisc. (1936)
The Johnson Wax Admn. Building, Racine, Wisc. (1936)- the Lobby
The Johnson Wax Admn. Building, Racine, Wisc. (1936)
Talesin West, Scotsdale, near Phoenix, Arizona (1938)
Talesin West, Scotsdale, near Phoenix, Arizona (1938)
Talesin West, Scotsdale, near Phoenix, Arizona (1938)
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City (1943-59)
19 storeyed divided into four quadrants- three for offices and one a duplex apartment which is on two floors.
The remarkable aspect of this building is that no two sides are the same, each one taking its location & orientation into account.
The Harold C.Price Company Tower, Bartlesville, Okla. (1952)
The Beth Sholom Synagogue, Elkins Park, Penn. (1954)
The inspiration for the synagogue was Mount Sinai. The roof of the synagogue is a double thickness of translucent fibreglass corrugated panels, which are not set in a regular pattern but as sub-panels within a large triangular panel.
The Beth Sholom Synagogue, Elkins Park, Penn. (1954)
The Beth Sholom Synagogue, Elkins Park, Penn. (1954)
The Dallas Theater Center (The Kaliita Humphreys Theater), Dallas, Texas (1955)
The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Wauwatosa, Wisc. (1956)
The design won an award from the Portland Cement Association for the innovative method Wright used to support the dome which rests at its edges on small steel balls which act as point hinges, absorbing the movement of the dome as it shifts as a result of expansion and contraction.
There are other rooms below grade, in the basement , and these include a banqueting hall and the Sunday school classrooms. There are windows on each side that overlook sunken gardens on either side.
The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Wauwatosa, Wisc. (1956)
The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Wauwatosa, Wisc. (1956)
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